Detecting TB early goes a long way toward avoiding some of the disease's worst outcomes and preventing its spread to others.

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. In the primary stage of TB infection, most people don't have symptoms or experience only mild ones like a low-grade fever, fatigue or coughing.

An experimental drug now in clinical trials as a cancer treatment could help boost the power of first-line tuberculosis (TB) ...

But in some ways, at the beginning of this year, the fight against tuberculosis had never looked more promising. High-quality vaccine candidates were in late-stage trials. In December, the World ...

Tuberculosis (TB), caused by the bacterium ... more than half of those in advanced stages of the disease are unable to do so. In addition, the concentration of bacteria in the sputum is often ...

TB is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a type of bacterial species. In early stages, infected lung cells limit spread through apoptosis, a natural and tightly regulated molecular process that ...